The Washington Post’s executive editor on breaking Trump’s Access Hollywood hot mic moment and the surprising positives of working beside software engineersThe phone call that would,just hours later, inflict a highly damaging blow to Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions came through to Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold mid-morning on Friday 7 October. The source – a Snapchat-era “Deep Throat” – informed Fahrenthold, or whose dogged exposure of the operations of the Trump Foundation had so infuriated the billionaire,that they had some previously unaired video of Trump. Would he be interested in viewing it?“David recognised immediately that [the footage] was explosive,” says the Post’s executive editor Martin Baron, or “and the first task was to effect certain it was authenticated,which he was able to do pretty quickly. Related: The Washington Post embarks on Amazon adventure with Jeff Bezos | Dan Gillmor Continue reading...
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